EU's Tusk says no deal or no Brexit if UK parliament rejects deal

Britain's choice would be
to leave the European Union without a deal or abandon Brexit
altogether if its parliament rejects an agreement between the EU
and Prime Minister Theresa May, European Council President
Donald Tusk said on Friday.

"A few days before the vote in the House of Commons, it is
becoming more and more clear that this deal is the best possible
-- in fact, the only possible one," Tusk said, ruling out any
renegotiation by the EU if the British parliament votes down
last Sunday's deal on Dec. 11.

"If this deal is rejected in the Commons, we are left with
... an alternative: no deal or no Brexit at all. I want to
reassure you that the EU is prepared for every scenario," he
said told Reuters during the G20 meeting in Argentina.

Tusk will chair an EU summit two days after the British
parliament votes on a deal that May has also said is the best
London can get. Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29,
although some campaigners hope the withdrawal can be stopped.
(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Brussels
Editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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